It would be very interesting to compare Smee perf to this new  
generation. I'm also thinking that the hidden class strategy could be  
applied to Smee to make it incredibly fast.  I'm not sure how this  
helps, but it is very interesting...

On Sep 5, 2008, at 3:38 PM, "Stephen Pair" <stephen at pairhome.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Avi Bryant <avi at dabbledb.com> wrote:
>
> One interesting (if odd) just-released language that targets
> JavaScript is Objective-J: http://cappuccino.org/ .  It's a near clone
> of Objective-C (only without the C), that compiles to JavaScript on
> the fly in the browser.
>
> What is the point of Objective-J?  I looked into it a while back and  
> didn't get it.  The only advantage I could imagine was being able to  
> take some Objective-C code and readily port it to Objective-J.  And  
> perhaps the familiarity of the syntax to people that already know  
> Objective-C is worth something.  But, in most respects, Objective-C  
> is inferior to Javascript as far as I can tell (for example  
> Objective-C lacks closures).
>
> - Stephen
>
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